Process of expelling volatile matter from vegetable products.



D. M. BALOH. PROCESS OF EXPBLLING VOLATILE MATTER FROM VEGETABLE PHODUCT$.

APPLICATION IILED APR.29, 1911;

Patented A r. 8, 1913.

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DAVID 331. BALCBI, 9F CGRQHADG, CALIFOENEA.

ERGGESC- 933 INC? VOLATZLE ELeETEE VEGETAELE PBG'DLFCTS.

setters i is-itemized 2 5., 1

Aim'licetion flied April 539 1811-. Serial 624903.

"eral constituents can be most readily separated -from the organic tissues containing them.

The dis- *ol, ighly perfecteand the distilioiiim o seaweeds infancy, are siislogoii nerzi'tions. but their obiective point not a some i v 4 ill the case oi Wood. .ensiiblci'olsifiiie products ore oi porisnce a i {be winning; of l #Oildliiun the-objectof ihe stat the residuum the o s oonseouence 4 products non of mm The state the char LiQiElIHlilBS iiiire oi .;-.a 1. is risco char, one

ieiaii :i lixiiizitc entirei q free i 'omodor or color, is indispensable lo the coinniercia y successful extraction of the saline contents of marine plants.

In dry disiillstion of vegetable or Woody tissues the process is fairly under my si- 200 (legs. ceniig'iide. it progresses will. rising temperature, and is nearly coinoletedat about. dogs. (1., but the char si'ili liof about of undecomposcd organic n tee the complete removal of which required to produce the b651, results. This demands protracted exposure to a much higher temperature under the processes now in use. it is (lillicult to expel, even by protracted besiiog, i roin Fwci and AZgze the lust portions of certain nitrogenous compounds iliaf they contain. Moreover, protracted exposure to an elevated temperature vitizites their saline contents by reducing sul isies'io sulfi and the lower oxid of sulfur. A char even when slightly imperfect has in mnmoniucol and empj reumatic odor and so does the liXiYi-ste from it, which is tinged with color and. yields salts contaminated with organic. prociucts.- In a patent granteil to me Dec. 15th, 1903, No. 7 17 ,291. I profiosed as a remedy for these difiiculties, and as a. means oi oitsining' loerifect char, the addition 01 a sinsil "cools e of some alkaline substance to the rev; disi'siiietion. fen example, would a steio of divie dusted over and through This gives good reconditions, but is faulty .l poi W, especially Where W8 treat 'es of raw material:

'iodllvor fi foreign matter t- -et eiice iiniovorsbiy the products r less pronon or emoerscure higher sieoli with iiie best results. The e" mass gel overheated to more the inner portions are i so shall be niy preset;

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on I'- it invent-ion to process in the exposure roiort or heating chamber to "urgent of air, whereby oxidation is esislolised end the char speedily freed v nutter w liour incisor-ailing thereby I and vii cape itog iilfi ezrrsciion l products. ii ecoozii ii 2. process as herein desci'ioed oroooct' of o.lirs "'e ct by lli a. to the L so. clnefi poi'essium chlflid and suii etes from seaweeds, which 5 mi by means il'ie eg'iporatus described. in the accompan 'ng drswing, in which: I

Figure l, is rerspective View of a. fur- -ece for carrying. out my improved PIOCQSS.

' i is an eolerg J end view of rho trays end carrier out of the furnace.

The orocess would is conducted as 3201- lo'w's:--Tl1o seziiieerl is preferably prepared sp xiniete desiccation, and by division into pieces of suiiabie size by any suitable means, and dried. It will then loo iound advsnlzageous to best, or Incchanics'llg agitate. the material whereby a certain amount of potassium. chlorid of high purity is directly separated as an eil'loresced salt. The material reoared as above directed is ready for Hill '. any (imminent iiuriiw-e iu 035 a SEJfikS if w eriiiires in the Side VliiS which are 1101 seci by (i-) 51 furnace in t of an oblong-cham her: (if masii'm 1 a (10011 at one end, and aperturzs in die side W21 .s which are normally dosed by (190x5 7. Fipe 8, having :1 branch 9 connecting with a condensing zippz mms 110i shoi'm, for the collection of the mintih products, 5511 311 18 211003101, ethsis light ois mail 05b pfoduciss km minim-011s to merit 11, de /canning 011 the material, iezids from the hip of H10 furnace in the ash pit. A, 000i: 10 cm; 1: Hie :uhnission 1? the voizziile gar 1'30 iii, furnace. C001; 11. on branch 9 coni iuis ii comm mice of the i'oiziiile [n'bdiicis to the i'zoiii'leiisciz Es-Teui: 111113" be applied by means of fines; 0i lfsist" nice coil. The irmterial may be arranged in the heatin chamber in Myer: not co1nmci'ed biit .lrmsm V shaken qutya svries of tiziya 12 (m. Wiiifih the material may be spread id wiiigzh can be run in and out of 131m chamber gives very gooci resuiis, the object being. H) anew the heat and at the pwpar time the admiilied air, easily to pone-- Ernie i hamatizriui, The digger of the heating chamber and a; ventilating doors aicng its isiiiesi Law nmw; 0105M, communication with i, 1 is, 5mm

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'm gases i imu the material Wiihm'lb mc'ii'i- 84 arming; the material, and then expellir ti ixzmzaindor of The gases by aerlgioii off V nmiter --.i'ithmit inciiic'ziiiing the subsiantiaiiy as (i "cribea.

The hen: i'ib'ed PFOCQnS of @X QL i u E'Ciliiifi iiizittei' 10m Vegetable 1; "0&- 's which consist 1st, in subjecting cirieii (*mmnimzimi -ve 1N0 limiter coniziiiia ii in a (05m! z'ecopi'nue 10 the action of heat 0:55 about. ims. 0., l'empei'atum, um 91R piii'i (ii. 110 \nhit'iiu inai' ex (11. ex Mimi 'i ijunl Liic recepiaci n 1211011? i :iiing he in: rizzi, and then contimi'i heat and zii-ii'ziiing His: lililii l ceiiiziiii iimrecepizici'e unitii voizztiia matter i tifauieii from the w-winbie limiter W incinei-ui' giihe mater-i111.

2-3, The 11 in Gosvriueii process if e; "iie matter 1-0221 vegetable 10h sunfish; 15%; in.

ed vegetable H1}. ceniaixim mepiisicie 1.0 f a mm" 1 1" part 0i L ed withcut incii aerating the It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,058, 13'? granted April 8, 1913, up on the application of David M. Baleh, of Coronado, California, for an improyment in Processes of Expelling volatile Matter from Vegetable Products, an error :Lppcars in the printed specification requiring correction as follows: Page 2,

transpose lines 57 and 58; and that the said Letters Patenfi should. be read with time correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the ease in the Patent Ofiice.

c Signed and seaied this 6th day of May, A. D 193.

SEAL o. o. BILLINGS,

Acing/ Commissioner 0 f Pat ents. 

